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Metals Commentary: What’s behind molybdenum’s dramatic price response
Molybdenum prices in Europe have risen rapidly after the World Trade Organization (WTO) confirmed that the export duties and quotas imposed by China on molybdenum are incompatible with its WTO obligations. This report concludes a dispute…
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Copper market headed for surplus, GFMS says
Up until the recent sell-off, there had been a prolonged run for copper prices. And the latest survey from Thomson Reuters GFMS says the recent drop in copper prices may not be a blip, but a sign of more weakness to come.
Editorial: Still plenty of appetite for M&A
While private equity financing was the talk of the mining industry in the first quarter, heavy duty mergers and acquisitions are punching their way back to centre stage, as mining majors take advantage of depressed metals prices and share…
Copper production surplus expected for2014-15: ICSG
The following copper market forecast for 2014 and 2015 was released by the Lisbon-based International Copper Study Group (ICSG). For more information on the ICSG, visit www.icsg.org.
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Commentary: Coal down but not out
The following is an edited excerpt of a speech about the global outlook for coal by Dean Dalla Valle, president of BHP Billiton Coal, at the CEDA Energy and Resources series in Brisbane, Australia, where BHP has consolidated its metallurgical…
Why building a mine on budget is so rare
There is an established history of capital-cost overruns in the mining industry stretching back at least 50 years, mining analyst Christopher Haubrich told the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto in…
Metals, mining and money markets
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Shadowy Chinese loans behind copper’s decline
VANCOUVER — In recent years, as prices for many resources slide, copper has held its ground. Gold and silver stumbled, uranium and iron ore deteriorated, and coal and potash dragged, but copper simply settled from a five-year high of…